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If all else fails, at least you can always rely on the weekly Sunday night post.

For all of you non-Seattleites, I’ll indulge your ideas of the rain drenched Northwest. The rain has been coming down for several hours now. It’s of the maximum density, plop-plop variety and currently I can almost see the grass growing. Although there are many who curse the rain (why live here?), I for one, am eternally thankful for it. We had such a mild winter that every drop counts to make up where snowpack from the mountains is predicted to be in short supply. Besides that, selfishly it helps me think.

This weekend began with good intentions for creativity, cleaning and errands. We hit REI on the first day of the Anniversary Sale to pick up a pair of hiking boots for Mark and a nice red backpack for the dogs. On Saturday morning, we tested both out on the Old Sauk River trail outside of Darrington. The trail was very easy, but beautiful nonetheless as it followed alongside the Sauk River. We didn’t see another soul on the trail and the dogs had a fantastic time splashing around in the river and sniffing the good smells. The trail was speckled with slugs of different varieties, from glossy black to speckled. I did my best not to step on them for their and my own good. They are so large, a misplaced step would have resulted in considerable carnage. Blech. We returned home in the early afternoon where we all (dogs too!) promptly took a nap.

And Sunday morning, our friends M & T picked us up for breakfast at the Coastal Kitchen. Yum. Good coffee and good conversation are the cornerstones of any lovely Sunday morning! I returned home to ignore the final stages of my guest room project and opt to do laundry instead. Lazed on the couch for solid, uninterrupted reading time until Mark joined me to watch Criminal. By the way, if you’ve seen The Hard Eight and The Spanish Prisoner, then you don’t need to see this movie. Unless, that is, you are a die hard fan of Maggie Gyllenhaal.

There’s more to say, but those thoughts aren’t finished swirling around in my head. And besides that, I’m not feeling well.

I hope you had a lovely weekend.